Bottle-closure.



No. 850,437. -PATENTED APR. 16, 19o?.

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BOTTLE` GLOSURE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8,1906.

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DANIEL O. LYNCH, CF WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNCR CF CNE- FCURTH TC CHARLES H. CASPAR AND CNE-FOURTH TC HENRY T. SCHULZ, CF WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOT'l'l..E-'CLOSUREl Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed June 8,1906. Serial Noa 320,837.

To all whom, it may concern:

De it known that I, DANIEL LYNCH, of VVilkes-Barre, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a bottleneck with the seal attached, the means for removing the seal being shown in operative position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Eig. 3 is a central cross-sectional view showing parts in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a top plan view.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the metallic sealing-cap, in the form of a flat disk rounded downwardly at its edge and having a plurality of depending binding lips 2, which at their lower ends are bent inwardly into engagement with the usual bead of the bottle-neck. Preferably I employ three of these depending binding-lips, spaced apart equal distances, and by means thereof the cap is firmly secured in place over the mouth of the bottle, the ordir ary cork disk 3 serving to hermetically seal the bottle. Extending laterally from at least two of these depending lips are arms 4, which are bent inwardly along their lower edges, as at 5, Fig. 3, into locking engagement with the bead of the bottle-neck. I have shown three such arms, two extending laterally from one of the lips and the third from a second lip, the third lip not being equipped. It is manifest, however, that one arm may project from each of the lips, if desired. The purpose of these arms is not only to aid in retaining the cap in place, but primarily to furnish means for effecting the quick and easy removal of the cap. By bending any one of the arms outwardly at approximately right angles to its normal position the same will serve as a lever for prying off the cap. I have found it specially advantageous to utilize two of the arms for this purpose, and hence the reason for forming two of the arms with one cf the lips. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, when these arms are bent outwardly away from the bottle and about approximately parallel, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4, they may be forced upwardly, (see dotted lines, Fig. 3,) withdrawing their respective lip from engagement with the bottle and permitting the cap to be forced therefrom. The same result may be secured, but possibly not in as facile a way, by the single arm.

It will be observed that all of the parts of the cap are within the plane of those portions which engage with the bead of the bottleneck. In consequence the cap may be read ily applied to bottles by any standard capping-machine. There is no portion of the cap which projects either laterally or otherwise beyond the plane of the ordinary cap. In other words, no one of the arms constitutes a longitudinal elongation of the retaining-lips; but, on the contrary, such arms themselves encircle the bottle and aid in retaining the cap in place, and when it is desired to remove the cap it is only necessary to bend either one or two of the arms outwardly at 4right angles to the bottle and then force upwardly thereon to effect the disengagement of one of the lips, thus permitting the ready removal of the cap.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a bottle-closure, a metallic disk and a band or flange depending therefrom and encircling the bottleneck, said band compricing a series of lips and a series of arms extending laterally from the lips, said. lips and said arms being in engagement with the bead of the bottle throughout the lengths of their lower edges, whereby saidY arms may be bent away from the bottle and out of engagement Awith the bead thereof to form means for effecting the removal of the disk.

2. The herein-described bottle-olosure consisting of a metallic disk having a plurality of depending lips designed to be bent at their lower ends into engagement with the bead of the bottle-neck, arms engaging saidbead IOO In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

DANIEL O. LYNCH.

Witnesses:

WM. POKQRNY, JOSEPH J. BAER 

